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Once again, ridiculous preacher TB Joshua claims he predicted the latest air disaster. Missing Jet prophesy: UK High C’ssner taunts TB Joshua The UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin has scoffed at Pastor TB Joshua over his claim that he predicted the disappearance of AirAsia’s Indonesia flight QZ8501 months before the incident occurred. The…

Perhaps a bit of an exaggeration to claim he helped. Friend of missing 35 year old’s family claims he was found by the help of a psychic.* Police believe the dead body found Thursday afternoon is Per Arne Hestenes who went missing November 8. A private search group found the body. Hestenes may have been involved…

I’m hardly enthused about covering such a ridiculous tabloid story. But this certainly qualifies as news concerning a behavior you SHOULD be completely skeptical about. Airline changes flight after renowned psychic predicts crash A renowned Brazilian psychic spooked an airline into changing a plane’s flight number after he claimed to have a vision that the…

In a followup to a story where psychics were giving press for “helping” find a missing 2 yr old, it’s sad, but we told you so. Psychic detectives are neither psychic nor detectives. This method does not yield results. Psychic group tips on missing toddler Myra Lewis lead nowhere. Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker will…

30 days in jail for this quack. Sham healer jailed for harming cancer victim. A 70-year-old self-confessed alternative medicine man has been jailed in Norway after he gave misleading and illegal advice to a terminally cancer patient, it was revealed on Thursday. The man was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Inntrøndelag district court…

The US Justice Department has brought the hammer down on a psychic fraud scheme that solicits customers via mail that looks personalized targeting elderly and and economically vulnerable people promising wealth. WASHINGTON: Did these mail-order ‘psychics’ see the Justice Department coming? | Suits & Sentences | McClatchy DC. The Justice Department on Thursday filed civil complaints…

Myra Lewis, a 2 year old girl from Canton, disappeared 6 months ago. She is still missing and now psychics are joining in to locate her. Psychics search for Myra Lewis. The group of volunteers, made up of former law enforcement, forensic experts and search team members have collaborated, issuing a report with an exact…

Wow. This is a unique case of very different parties uniting over a common concern. FEATURE-Science meets voodoo in a New Orleans festival of water. Perhaps no other city in the United States is as well-suited as New Orleans to wed a scientific discussion of environment with a celebration of the occult. That’s exactly what…

Sally Morgan calls herself “the original 21st Century medium.” Her Facebook page has over 93K “likes”. Her bio reads: Sally’s sell out theatre shows have been seen by a staggering half a million people, her hit television shows are watched by millions and her books are best-sellers! With her unique personality, refreshing approach and uncanny…

Dear Psychic Sally: If you are speaking with the dead, why haven’t you won a major scientific prize or accolades? Why aren’t you helping to find terrorists who murdered people? Why are you using your talent just in theatre shows for money? Just wondering… A skeptical campaign surrounding Sally Morgan continues despite the legal threats…

Infamous, so-called faith healer John of God is coming to Australia – a prospect that has alarmed the Australian Medical Association. Critics show little faith in healing powers of Brazilian ‘trickster’. THE website video shows Brazilian Joao Teixeira de Faria, a self-described “simple farmer” with no medical training, as he exposes the breast of a…

It’s a story we hear far too often and fail to understand – why people give their life savings to conmen who promise supernatural intervention. This story is an update to one a few weeks ago reporting that the community police force was tackling the scurge of “faith healers”. Leicester couple hands over £85,000 to…

A variation on the “blessings scam” has struck Wisconsin. The perpetrator is at large, wanted for felony theft. Woman loses $20K in psychic scam, believed money needed to be blessed | Local News – WISN Home. [T]he victim told police as tarot cards were arrayed on a table in July, the self-proclaimed psychic, 38-year-old Agueda…

Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise is still peddling her woo beliefs and this time she got star power help too! Popular self proclaimed psychic Lisa Williams, whom we have mentioned on this site before, held a seminar with her royal highness in Oslo last night. And talking to the dead ain’t cheap. The tickets were 1540…

A police team in Leiceister, England has formed to address what appears to be large-scale fraud connected to faith healing. Police to lift lid on murky world of bogus faith healers who promise cures for huge sums of money. Police hope to lift the lid on the murky world of ‘faith healers’ who promise cures…

One town in Virginia had a ban on fortune tellers and tarot card readers. Noticing that the rest of the country has plenty of psychic-based businesses around, the council decided to revisit the law. A good idea, for all the wrong reasons. Front Royal town council repeals decades-old law that banned ‘magic arts’. In Front…

Did you know Canada has a law against “pretending to practice witchcraft”? What if you AREN’T pretending. And how can they tell? Fake medium faces sorcery charge… in Canada. An occultist known as Professor Alfoseny, accused of falsely claiming to be a medium, has been charged under an obscure anti-sorcery provision in the Criminal Code…

A local Arizona outlet reports on a Discovery Channel episode featuring a local psychic who claims to have helped find the body of a woman’s missing mother. However, as often seen, the story is half-baked. Arizona murder with psychic connection featured on Discovery. The Discovery Channel set out to tell stories of middle-aged women falling…

Media treats this windfall story with utmost credulity, noting that the winner was once told by a psychic reader that she would win the lottery. Oh really…? Ex-NYPD cop is first New Yorker to win $1,000 per day for life – NY Daily News. A retired NYPD cop considers her new lottery jackpot divine —…

Yes, I KNOW this is from the National Enquirer but whenever a psychic gets bad publicity, it makes me smile! It also sounds somewhat plausible as I’ve looked up the psychic in question. The fact that this piece gives the psychic bad press is news in itself. ANGIE TELLS BRAD: DITCH YOUR PSYCHIC! – The National…

From a tragic situation, a mother sees more meaning than is really there from the words and actions of her now lost son. Young MH17 victim has eerie premonition of crash – Yahoo News. Samira Calehr wrapped her arms around her 11-year-old son, who’d been oddly agitated for days, peppering her with questions about death,…

Waiter was convinced that his premonitory dream resulted in a lottery win. Waiter Fatih Ozcan will get half of boss’ $1.7M lottery jackpot for predicting win thanks to judge – UPI.com. A judge in England ruled that a restaurant owner must give half of his $1.7 million lottery jackpot to an employee who helped convince…

You know what? I’ve always thought Chip Coffey was yucky. No change now. He’s also a coward to continually dodge calls for him to show actual evidence for the ridiculous claims he makes. Why should he? He’ll just continue to enjoy the 300K people on his Facebook fan page and the many guest appearances he makes. Skeptics don’t…

Psychic to the stars dies of cardiovascular disease. Kenny Kingston dies at 87; claimed to be ‘psychic to the stars’ – Los Angeles Times. Kenny Kingston, the self-described “psychic to the stars” who claimed numerous celebrity clients — and said that he could communicate with dead ones — died Monday at home in Studio City. He was…

Yet another “spiritual healer” accused of fraud. I sort of like this trend, other than the obvious conclusion that people are still falling for this garbage. This person advertised via flyers and ads but many clients may have come via word of mouth. Since people are apt to trust “advice” from their friends, this is…